Company!

This morning, Mary Jeanne & John from Wisc. (& Peggy) came over. John has gone with Bill and his dad on the prairie dog hunting trips to S. Dakota.

Diane, Lacey & I headed to Ft. Dodge to meet mom at Tea Thyme at Sadies for lunch. The best picture taken there was blurry.

This evening Amy, Glenn & the boys, Amy's sister Leanna and her husband Bob and Amy's mom came over to see the house. They're all here from Indiana for the boys' graduation. Lacey is spending the night with us camping in a tent in Great Grandma's room! I still hear her talking - may be a short night for Grandma. This is Glenn in the tent with Lacey earlier.

Mark D. got started today getting ready to pour the concrete for our front porch, sidewalk and out from the garage doors.

Fun day. Answering a Comment/question, YES we're already enjoying the new plasma TV!!! The NASCAR race last Sun. was great! We have one more long cable to get and then they'll all be hidden in the wall. Will post pics of the great room eventually.

Back to Business

I've just been cleaning and unpacking stuff and getting ready for company for graduation this weekend. Hope to meet mom at the tea room in Ft. Dodge (Tea Thyme at Sadies) for lunch as she arrives in the area tomorrow.

Bill was able to start planting behind his mom's later this afternoon and Tim rolled beans in another field. I need a picture for the blog of Tim and the roller. It is BIG! It's the same width as the 24 row planter. Possibility of some rain tonight and tomorrow but then very nice for several days.

We've actually started watching TV again in the new house! Ahhhh, life is starting to return to normal. I watched Survivor and Grey's Anatomy. Got a call from Bill to pick Tim up and take him home (he just had the tractor). Bill is still planting at 10:15 and said to not wait up.

Gettin' There

No planting today - more rain this morning. But the corn is coming up nicely everywhere.

Our garage door openers were installed today. Keith, one of Bill's hunting buddies, came over after work to help move some heavy pieces from the old house. Those were the last big things that needed to be moved. Got our boxes of tax records stashed under the basement stairway in the closet. We can see the end now!

Getting ready for the triplets' big graduation this weekend. Mom will get here Fri. and Amy's parents & sister & brother-in-law are coming. The boys' graduation party is Sat. evening with graduation Sun. afternoon. I think the boys are coming here for breakfast Mon.

Check out how well our painters matched the paint colors to our bedspread!

Rain Delay

Kinda late but thought I'd type a post anyway.

We started the day with a fire call right at 6:00 am. A young guy had rolled an SUV on a gravel road just north of Tim's house (I know some of you don't know where that is but Tim's kids in other states read this, Bill's brother in MO, sister in MN, etc.). The guy was banged up but ok - vehicle was not.

I had a phone co. guy stop to flag where they're going to bury our phone line. He had been to training in Ft. Wayne, Indiana so talked to me a lot about that and the differences between here and there. Then our neighbor John, the bug man, came to spray for bugs (yay!). Not that we have any yet - but that's the idea! I have seen 2 live spiders already. We had "purchased" one free pest control application at the silent auction benefit last year for John's wife (the one I donated the pies for a year for). We waited to use it at the new house - the old house was beyond control for bugs.

We had 2-3 loads of sand delivered and a skid loader - getting ready for the concrete work.

I had a hair apptmt. with Diane after lunch. Then the lightning drove the guys out of the fields around 4:30 with rain following. Bill only has about 300 acres left to plant.

Back to Planting

This is the guest room where mom will stay this next weekend when she comes for the triplets' graduation if she feels better. It's not looking good for that right now. She's calling the specialist tomorrow. This comforter is actually light yellow with the wall color in the leaves.

Bill & Tim are back to planting today after the rain delay. They have 700 acres to go. I took Bill his supper tonight. Usually the guys come home for lunch at noon when we have our bigger meal, and I take Bill something around 6:30 if he's working late at night. They're good about getting home for lunch right about 12:00 so Bette Jo and I know to have our meals ready then.

This was the sunset last evening taken from our new driveway.

The plumbers came to pick up the loaner water heater we used in the old house for a few days. A guy came from the County to take a water sample to test the new well. I made a 2nd call to the phone co. re: getting the phone line buried.

Lazy Sunday

We haven't accomplished much today but I think that's ok. After church we ate and sat down and read the Sun. paper and I took a short nap. Woke up and had visitors: Bill's mom and Aunt Delrae. As soon as they left I realized that I forgot to take their picture here - I've been bad about that this past week. Early in the week Lois S. came over and brought us some yummy apple squares and also rhubarb. Another day our neighbor, Amy, brought us her "very chocolatey brownies" that she had promised once we moved in.

Some of you may wonder why I took a picture of a DQ, but several family members have probably not seen the "new" Carmel DQ! The old one that Mom & Dad built burned completely last year. When I was in Carmel last week, after seeing dad's tombstone across the street, I had to go in the new DQ. I saw what looked like the (he was the Manager of 15 years) and introduced myself and told him it looks amazing. He said they're pretty proud of it and that Dad used to always keep his eye on the place!